{"id":72646,"date":"2017-09-15T03:46:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T10:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/immune-and-nerve-cells-work-together-to-fight-gut-infections"},"modified":"2017-09-15T03:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T10:46:02","slug":"immune-and-nerve-cells-work-together-to-fight-gut-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/immune-and-nerve-cells-work-together-to-fight-gut-infections","title":{"rendered":"Immune and Nerve Cells Work Together to Fight Gut Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immune-and-nerve-cells-work-together-to-fight-gut-infections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nerve cells in the gut play a crucial role in the body\u2019s ability to marshal an immune response to infection, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in Nature, shows that the immune system and nervous system have co-evolved to respond to infectious threats. This means that scientists looking for ways to treat diseases like inflammatory bowel disease or asthma that involve an excessive immune system response may also have to address the nervous system\u2019s role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe immune system and neuronal system don\u2019t act independently,\u201d said senior author Dr. David Artis, director of the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Michael Kors Professor of Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine. \u201cThey are working together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/neuroscience\/news\/immune-and-nerve-cells-work-together-to-fight-gut-infections-291575\">https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/neuroscience\/news\/immune-...ons-291575<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nerve cells in the gut play a crucial role in the body\u2019s ability to marshal an immune response to infection, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists. The study, published in Nature, shows that the immune system and nervous system have co-evolved to respond to infectious threats. This means that scientists looking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}